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  • adjective Not cramped.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ cramped

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Examples

  • Porches and roofs erupted with hardly any warning, but I welcomed the change, envying the uncramped legs of the people crowding the sidewalk.

    May the Road Rise Up to Meet You Stephanie Bastek 2010

  • Not that Mr. Basnett, giving his days to commerce and his spare time to social reform, would long carry about him any trace of his possibilities of completeness; but, for the moment, in his youth and ardor, still speculative, still uncramped, one might imagine him the citizen of

    Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

  • Anna uncramped herself from her perch on the stool and stood, stretching.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • Stretched flat, muscles uncramped, blood began to flow and some of the awful cold went out of Anna's bones.

    Firestorm Barr, Nevada 1996

  • Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end.

    Freedom From Fear Aung San Suu Kyi 1991

  • It had felt for a moment like he was never going to get it uncramped!

    The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • This, though she did not know it, was art in its highest form - the free, uncramped artistic expression of a highly esthetic race, unhampered by conventional symbolism.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Danny uncramped into his best version of Ted Krugman at ease — legs loosely crossed, hands laced behind his head.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • This, though she did not know it, was art in its highest form -- the free, uncramped artistic expression of a highly aesthetic race, unhampered by conventional symbolism.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • I know the joy of creating uncramped, and the joy of copying such a model far outweighs any small delight thy little vanity may have experienced.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

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